Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1962 Planning Act upheld the right of any applicant to have their case heard at an oral hearing , but the 1976 Planning Act made this a discretionary matter for An Bord Pleanala to decide . |
| 2 | Just over a year ago , over a thousand biologists gathered at an international meeting in Vancouver . |
| 3 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 4 | Gemma sits like a reclining obelisk with messy hair dyed a shade lighter than his , large eyes resting at an artful slant , a full mouth . |
| 5 | To find it , simply follow a line from Beta through Epsilon ; Omega lies at an equal distance on the far side of Epsilon . |
| 6 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 7 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 8 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 9 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 10 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 11 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 12 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 13 | The performance of computers improves at an astounding rate , perhaps unlike any other machine in the world . |
| 14 | Levi 's survey ( Levi 1986 ) put the figure at 1 billion losses , with recorded offences rising annually at 5 per cent , and the Confederate of British Industry estimates that computer crime runs at an annual figure of 25 to 30 million . |
| 15 | Two general reviews of the field presented at an introductory level are Bally et al. |
| 16 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 17 | Only a black quilted hairband pushing back her blonde hair hinted at an aristocratic connection . |
| 18 | Only a black quilted hairband pushing back her blonde hair hinted at an aristocratic connection . |
| 19 | In SPAR , however , reference resolution is able to overturn any preferences applied at an earlier stage . |
| 20 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 21 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
| 22 | The same groups of women are at risk : those of a promiscuous nature , and particularly those whose first sexual intercourse occurred at an early age . |
| 23 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 24 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |
| 25 | Boden advanced at an insolent saunter to the stretched rope . |
| 26 | Migration continued at an undiminished rate through the seventies . |
| 27 | These companies realized at an early stage that there is no point in trying to compete with the majors in releasing daytime radio or ‘ Top of the Pops ’ material , and that it would be better to find acts who have proved popular on the live circuit but who are considered too left field for the majors . |
| 28 | Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion . |
| 29 | He paused by the windowsill on the way to his desk to peer at an African violet in a pot . |
| 30 | Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model , the repulsive effective of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate . |